Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:22:27 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. Message-ID: <201002052022.o15KMRg3037195@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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After about a week of trying, I don't think sysinstall will install FreeBSD when used with mfsbsd. I launched mfsbsd from a CDROM and it works fine. I also used dd to feed the mfsboot.img file to the boot sector on the system's hard drive and that also worked fine. mfsbsd doesn't appear to be the problem. Everything but sysinstall works as one would expect. Sysinstall may either be confused because the host is in multi-user mode or it may be trying to protect what it thinks is the system's boot drive from damage. It absolutely will not write one byte to /dev/ad0 partitions even though it sees the drive. the rest of sysinstall appears to be normal except for its fear about writing to /dev/ad0sx. I will be very happy to be proven wrong, but I don't know what else to do to sysinstall to get it to use that drive. It does work from the local console in single-user mode from the CDROM. I greatly appreciate all the help and welcome any new ideas, but it appears to be back to the drawing board for remotely-done upgrades. Martin McCormick
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